https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2010/08/02/someone-needs-to-get-the-oakhurst-post-office-under-control-now/ Joe Palazzolo's Blog Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2010/08/02/someone-needs-to-get-the-oakhurst-post-office-under-control-now/comment-page-1/#comment-9523 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:31:49 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=5954#comment-9523 In high school my parents and I moved and because it was a brand new house, the mailbox wasn’t in yet. We had to pick up our mail at the town’s post office for the first couple of days. I usually went after school to pick the mail up, and each time, it was the same two guys – the first guy was generally pleasant, the second one was not. When the nicer guy would be the one to help you, I could say “I’m here to pick up my mail…” and that would be cool. One day, I wound up with the other guy — after saying “I’m here to pick up my mail,” he looked at me and acted like I was an idiot and said something to the effect of, do you mean general service pickup or something similar? I looked back at him and said, “yes, whatever picking up my mail means.” The next day, I had him again, and I couldn’t remember what the hell he expected me to say, so I thought I’d test him and I said “I’m here to pick up my mail.” He looked at me and again said, do you mean general service pickup? This time, I looked at him and because I was already expecting him to be a jerk, I said “you honestly expect people, who have busy lives,” to remember such a mundane phrase when I can just as easily say mail pickup? Short and curt, he said yes. I don’t care for confrontations, so I just said, “realistically, people are not going to remember something so insignificant. In the meantime, please get my mail.”

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